I have a guruserver plus clonnected to a 1G WD esata drive. (WDC WD10EARS-00Y5B1) I am experiencing some speed problems. I thought it was because of poor network performance so i upgraded to gigabit ethernet. This didnt help. so then i did some testing. I started an FTP session and did two tests. One to "get" to /dev/null (so no actual writing) and one "get" to write in the esata drive. Then i did a put command.Here are the results:

Uhhhhh.Well i presumed my problem lay in slow network speed so that was my 'way in' to investigate. But can you give me some tips in how to do a better test? I can imagine copying to a /dev/null but not from /dev/null (Newbie here).